Firefighters Battle Blazes

January 16, 1987|Staff reports

A deliberately set fire burned 75 acres of brush between Moroso Speedway and Indiantown Road in the northern part of Palm Beach County Thursday night, keeping firemen on the scene for five hours, a supervisor for the state Division of Forestry said.

The brush may have been set in five or six different sites, said Norman Masencup, Division of Forestry supervisor for Palm Beach County. Fires then burned into each other, forming two major fires, Masencup said.

Masencup said the ground beneath the brush was covered with water, supporting his conclusion the blaze was set.

Meanwhile, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue fought blazes at two abandoned homes Thursday night, one in Limestone Creek, west of Jupiter, another in the 8000 block of Indiantown Road.